A REFRESHER TO THE ORIGINAL CAMPAIGN FOR PD COMMUNITY AWARENESS CIRCULATED BY EMAIL ON 14TH APRIL 2010

Dear All PDs'; Hari! Om! On the occasion of “Thamizh  Varsha Pirappu”& taking the privilege & freedom this is to wish all of us for eternal happiness, prosperity and well being . These wishes are based on the trust that we still follow the tradition, despite the Royal Decree of The Tamizh Naadu Arasar, to celebrate the event jointly with Pongal, during the Thai or Phusyam Maasam. It’s a blessing for us from our Ancestors that we PDs’ have this unique pair of events to celebrate, ie. Ugadi – Tamizh Varsha Pirappu. It may be that very few communities across the globe would have such a privilege of celebrating the events of two different states, forget communities. Probably it’s a deep message from The Almighty, with the mantle given to us PDs’ to bridge the gap between the states of Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu, to set examples to others and thus in the process get owned by both Tamil Nadu & Andhra Pradesh unlike in the present. Refreshing the thoughts of  awareness for our PD Community with this email, in continuation to the Campaign through my previous email, let us touch upon a couple of points from the campaign, * Oneness feeling for all PDs’ * Propagating the awareness message * know each other better * Constant interaction The campaign will be available on www.pudurdravida.com for any ready reference. The original  Campaign was sent on 8th of March 2010 and subsequently also appended to the UGADI WISHES. The attempt was to reach to all the PD population across the globe, of course with all our support. With this idea, the known email ids’ have been approached through the Campaign for awareness and to propagate further through the PD Community, exhaustively. We are a definitely a significant population on the globe, to the extent that we could even turn a movement, if we join together. It’s appreciated that we are all pre-occupied with our own series of activities, commitments, responsibilities, problems of communication accessibility, or non-receipt of the emails, problems or may be some confusion of very understanding of the concept etc. Despite all this  a couple of prompt though isolated response were received for the Campaign, in the positive. Our whole PD Community is thankful to the owners of those email ids’ for the interest shown in the direction on Oneness Thoughts for the PD Community. An overwhelming feedback on the website is also appreciating & supportive. Of course we are also definitely thankful to each other for bearing with these couple of pages of messages. “The success of any kind of such concepts are possible as a whole and not in isolation”, can very well be understood and convince anyone. We are talking of Community Oneness and therefore cannot restrict  to individuals. The appeal to all of us is for Individuals’ awareness for the Community’s Oneness. The oneness feeling, at least, could definitely be nascent & inert in each one of us, the message or the campaign could already be under propagation and many of us may already be aware of each other. However, the nascent, inert should mature, turn active, may be reactive and critical or proactive also. The propagation could also be a transparent one. Most importantly we should know each other better, literally our names, family background, linkages,  whereabouts, activities. Of course, only if it is not that personal within the PD Community or felt unnecessary for the Community Cause. There could also be an opinion as, “ No Community or why Community feeling”. By now it could be well understood by all that the campaign is not a promotion drive. There are a couple of formal associations within our PD Community and definitely this is no competition to any of them or any in the making, if it so perceived. In fact  this Campaign would definitely generate awareness and motivate PDs’ to support & co-operate the associations and make them a success and take our PD Community to global arena. As human beings, we are supposed to keep up to Human Status, by using our intellects, deciding on choice of action & aiming for the higher ideal. Similarly, as a PD’ian, we should keep up to the word Association by truly associating, instead of merely giving it a formal status and utilizing for worldly needs. Why not we use the  privilege that we have that other life forms don’t have? Thus avoid getting termed as “Herds” and in the process at least  be instrumental in a Community Awareness Cause. There are many associations across the globe, at global level too, that are still a success in the truest sense but still don’t hold any formal status of an association. There is one other important point that we can focus, apart from the rest, is the “PD Bhashai”. There could be definite support to the PD Community Cause in reviving the PD Bhashai. It isn’t any new idea, of course. There are Government State or Central & other NGOs’ at least in India & many western countries who have worked in the past and are still working on Projects of Revival on varied subjects. Probably, we could start to deliberately speak among ourselves and generate an awareness of its existence to the unawares. The Family trees could also be developed and placed on the WWW, just an another point to add. It’s definitely justified in repeating the advantage of the modern communication technologies for the benefit of  generations, out of the presently active. This could enable PDs’ inaccessible or unaccustomed to the modern tools to use them and thus get easy and swift way in for supporting the  Community Oneness Cause. The PD website & the newsletters as we all know are productions of the modern communication technologies and we can go further and make them live with regular & consistent interaction. Support for regular updates on various aspects, be it an event, history or  data base from any quarter, is definitely welcomed, supposedly, by the Website Moderator. Inclusion of  PD Bhashai in the website or newsletter is another good suggestion, for its revival. To make it “ All in One” links to thoughts and discussions by learned philosophers across the Globe could be uploaded, on a regular basis for our knowledge. All our consistent support is required in this regard, in any way. Interestingly, an article of “Eenadu” Newspaper on “Pudurdravidas” was uploaded to our website. Definitely, many of us would have read the article and commented on.Could someone translate that into our necessary evil as English for better understanding, knowledge & appreciation? Let us work as individuals’ for the community interest and or for community’s individual interest To share a detail introduction of this email forwarder, in continuation to the very brief one in the original Campaign : Name : Vedam Chandrasekhar (Graduate Mechanical Engineer with over 2 decades career                                                     span & based at Selaiyur in Chennai, contact details below)               ( Age 46 years, born : 25th October 1963, Born @ St. John’s Hospital, Nellore)              S/o. (Late)Squadron Leader Vedam Radhakrishnan(Retired as  A Senior Officer                     of The Indian Air Force) & Vedam Rukmini (Home Maker)              Wife – Melanathuru Radha Nandini ( Sr. Vocational Training Officer, ITI Nellore)                          ( D/o. Melanathuru Venkatasubhramanyam & Melanathuru Gayatri)              Daughter – Vedam Thanvi Sree Nithya ( Born 11.01.1999)              Brother – Vedam Venkata Subramaniam ( A Senior Executive, Indian Railways)                              Wife – Melanathuru Padmini ( Home Maker, D/o M. Venkatesam)                               Daughter – Vedam Sonali ( Born 27.07.1997)              Sister    -  Vedam Nalina ( Senior Inspector of Central Excise & Service Tax)                               Husband – S. Ramnath ( A Senior Cost Accountant, S/o S Sivaraman                                                                                    & S. Lalitha)                               Daughter – R. Shwetha ( Born 04.01.1994)               GRAND PARENTS  Paternal – Grand Father – (Late)Vedam Subrahmanyam ( Well known Insurance                                                  Agent of Sunlife Insurance Co., Canada)                   Grand Mother – (Late) Vudali Lalitha ( Home Maker)  Maternal –Grand Father – (Late) Vadari Kalyana Sundaram, Leading Lawyer /                                               & Government Pleader in Nellore)                   Grand Mother – (Late)Thirupathur V  Bhagylakshmi( D/o. T Veerasamy                                                                                               Iyer & Anthamma) The recipients, may share there details if willing in the interest of our PD Community. “Anything begins with introductions”, hope all of agree on this. PDs’ with better ideas are welcome to come forward only to get the  appreciation etc. “Words talk more than the Silence, Actions talk more than the Words but the Attitude or the Spirit talks more than anything” Since the talk is on the Spirit of Oneness Consciousness, the “I” & its attached Ego from the Campaign of the previous email is  raised to a humble “We” here, as  “Continuous Improvement  Initiative” and keeping with the latest trends. WITH BEST REGARDS, VEDAM CHANDRASEKHAR PHONE : 00 91 44 222 70457 ( INDIA)               00 91 9444 77 9990 (INDIA)               00  968 96425738 (OMAN) / 00 968 974 77377478 EMAIL: chandrasekhar73@yahoo.com